I’m in the Energy sector supply business, and my company helps US manufacturers market their products overseas.  I can tell you this recession has put a lot of hurt on people in the oil industry.  With the price of oil plummeting most US equipment manufacturing companies had their backlogs dry up because of the lower rig count.  At one point, you had over 2000 Rigs drilling in the US, today we have slightly over 1000.  Many companies saw +50% drops in their sales figures due to the drop in rigs. 

The good news?  Because we work internationally, we had our best year ever last year as a exporter of US goods.